Amnesty International has accused the world’s most powerful governments, including China, Russia and the US, of leading the global disregard for international rules and values enshrined in the 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights amid wars in Gaza and Ukraine.
The war in Gaza, which began on October 7, was a “descent into hell”, Amnesty’s Secretary-General Agnes Callamard wrote in her preface to her organization’s annual report, noting that “the ‘never again’ moral and legal lessons [of 1948] were torn into a million pieces”.
Callamard said Israel’s “campaign of retaliation” following the October 7 attack by Hamas had become a “campaign of collective punishment”.
And as Israel continues to disregard international human rights law, the US and other countries, including the United Kingdom and Germany, were now guilty of “grotesque double standards”, Callamard said, given their willingness to back Israel’s war on Gaza while condemning war crimes by Russia in Ukraine.
Read the full report here.
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